It’s very simple, I can’t put Uzi as the goat because he choked in a meta that was made for the adc to carry.

He failed to carry when it mattered most.

def gotten S tier top laner

The LCK only has one true S tier top laner and that’s Zeus.

Doran is alright then turns into a god vs Zeus, but he’s not S tier and Kiin doesn’t perform under pressure, they should have promoted Thanatos.

T1 ahead of the pack, the gap between Zeus and the rest is massive, plus you re-signed Tom and then got kkOma too.

Gen.G’s roster is a downgrade for me, Doran > Kiin, Peanut >= Canyon, Delight > Lehends, also I’m not sure how a Kiin + Canyon + Chovy top half works, it’s not like you have ego-less players like a Faker or a Yagao to faciliate your jungler as they sack waves etc.

HLE well, you upgraded but man you just picked up the players from Gen.G who troll internationally but Viper Delight is a massive bot lane.

The rest are w.e

T1 also beat EDG 2 times at that year.

T1 EDG went 1-1 in 2021.

T1 2-0’d EDG in 2022 where Gumayusi was flat out the best adc at worlds.

Rookie ain’t top 20 buddy.

Ain’t no way Knight is top 5 lol, dude MIA’d the most important series of the year.

Would have preferred DRX’s if they didn’t push a false narrative about it being Deft’s last dance whereby he came back the next year as well.

But T1 with the whole, them looking dogshit without Faker, getting slammed by Gen.G, then looking bad vs TL plus all the finals losses, then being the last LCK hope then stopping the golden road then killing all the LPL teams, with T1 winning in Korea and the roster probably blowing up takes it slightly for me.

His promise was:

“Celebrating with our team in happiness after the win > Re-sign”

I.e he knew that the only way this roster stays together or has a chance to would be winning worlds.

felt like Weibo did not come to play

That’s what happens when one side of the bracket is loopsided, as soon as T1 won JDG, it was obvious that it would be pretty easy for T1 to win, there is 0 angle for WBG to attack T1.

Gen.G.

G2 barely just underachieved, they were at best a top 8 team anything else requires a massive quarters free draw to make it onwards.

Gen.G were supposed to rival JDG and they lost in quarters lol.

At worlds:

Zeus >= TheShy(Swings based on finals tbh) > Bin > 369 > Doran/Zika.

Oner >= Xun > Weiwei > Kanavi > Cuzz.

Faker > Bdd > Knight > Chovy >= Yagao.

Gumayusi > Ruler > Elk > Light > Aiming(sorry Gala your champ pool in the T1 series was pretty shit).

Keria > Missing > Delight > Crisp > On.

Replacing Ruler with arguably the best adc prospect in the 2nd league being compared to the GOAT being replaced by a guy who wasn’t even top 5 in his role in academy.

What an awful take.

The issue is, if you do that then you’re fucking Xiaohu too since they share the same champ pool and Xiaohu looks like 20 times worse than Faker.

I’d be looking at pushing Oner or Keria(if possible) in pick/ban.

T1 haven’t won a single title since 2022 Spring.

T1/SKT haven’t won an international title since 2017 MSI, i.e over 6 years.

4/5 players on T1, have no international title.

Heck, there are more international winners on WBG than T1 lol.

TheShy = top goat, won worlds.

Xiaohu = 3 MSI titles.

Crisp = won worlds.

EDG/RNG and then WBG because of TheShy.

T1 3-0/3-1.

They’ve looked better throughout their run at worlds against better teams.

They have the best performing mid laner, and the best performing bot lane.

Zeus unless he chokes, should be able to match TheShy in isolation, Oner looks like a man possessed, their drafts and meta read look way better.

They’ve also haven’t struggled really barring that TL and Gen.G games in best of 1s, plus Faker looks like he’s 10 tiers above Xiaohu right now.

He likes TheShy.

Ruler spot.